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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The funding was led by Kayne Partners Fund, the growth private equity arm of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP. The company said the funding will go towards expanding its dealer network across North America, as well as for its technology platform and data analytics capabilities.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. SoCal tech and life science companies are scaling faster than at any point in history.

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MARCH 21, 2019

The startup said funding in the round came from Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, several un-named, Southern California family funds, as well as board members and angel investors. Michael Smallwood is the founder and CEO of Bitmo. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2016

Armorway is a spinout of the University of Southern California, and has previously received support from the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense and U.S. Army Research Office. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 -- Disruption: Digital Platforms Regulation in the New Economy. Interested in the changes and challenges of the new digital platform economy? Digital platforms, such as, Airbnb, Uber, Amazon, and others are playing an increasing role in the economy. See [link] (more)

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JUNE 23, 2017

We chatted with Wayne about how SURE--backed by IA Capital, Menlo Ventures, FF Venture Capital, Nationwide Ventures, Assurant and AmTrust--is applying technology and working with, not against, insurance companies to make buying insurance something you can easily do with your smartphone or tablet. Wayne Slavin: That's a good question.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states. Featured stories.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Pasadena-based Wavemaker Three Sixty Health, LP , the healthcare startup investment fund led by Jay Goss, has teamed up with the University of Southern California's MESH (Medicine, Engineering, Science, Humanities) Academy at the USC Keck School of Medicine. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

in a funding round, the company said this morning, to go towards the development of its platform for managing data from cardiac devices. Geneva Healthcare, which is led by Kai Worrell, says it has already been deploying its technology across hospitals in Southern California. San Diego-based Geneva Healthcare has raised $1.8M

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. The biggest trend in the last twelve months is the rapid consolidation of major technology platforms across the board (social, cloud, mobile, video, communications, e-book, etc.)

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Based in Los Angeles, AppOnboard sees itself as one of a new breed of LA startup that’s steeping itself in the local ecosystem and trying to be one of the cornerstone’s for a new technology hub in the southern California region. And the company is in talks with other platforms, like the Apple Store, he said.

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Xconomy

APRIL 5, 2019

—Mobile app startup Bitmo announced it had raised more than $3 million in seed funding from investors including Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, and several Southern California-based family fund offices.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. I'm fascinated by the creator economy on Twitch, Youtube, and new streaming platforms.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Wannier is a longtime Southern California entrepreneur, having founded MyShape, Enfish, and co-founding Gemstar, the maker of VCR Plus. Here, we have the thoughts of Louise Wannier of True Roses.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Procore said the new products as part of a new platform it is calling Procore Construction OS , which it says is aimed at creating a frictionless construction process, connecting people, applications, and devices. The company recently joined the list of unicorns in Southern California after a big funding round from Iconiq Capital.

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APRIL 20, 2012

The firm said the firm will go to support building the largest, social casino game publisher on both social networks and mobile platforms. The funding came from IDM Venture Capital, Pacific Capital Group, Siemer Ventures, and angel investors, including Jordan Simons, Wicks Walker, Tomorrow Ventures, Jim Armstrong, and Michael Huskins.

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Southern California Social Network Venture Capital Entertainment 154

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. It is easy to invest capital, but very, very hard to exit, so don't.

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JUNE 15, 2020

Bhavuk Kaul: We are an accounts payable payments platform for the restaurant industry, and we are transitioning to serve other industries, such as the hospitality industry. We work with over 10,000 restaursnts, a lot of them in Southern California. What we are good at, is building technology and technology platforms.

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Help Startup Platform Southern California 173

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. Not only did they have to work 24/7 to build their startup, but they also had to invest the same effort in raising capital.

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MAY 18, 2010

According to Titan, it is focused on developing a "complete" gaming platform for skill-based matchmaking, tournaments and points or cash competitions. The list of angel investors--a veritable Who's Who of technology investors in Southern California--included William Quigley and Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures; Brock Pierce; MP3.com's

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MyLife Clearstone Southern California Competition 229

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. For those not familiar with Saban Capital, tell us about the fund?

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Pandora is venture backed by Crosslink Capital, Walden Venture Capital, Greylock Partners, Labrador Ventures, The Hearst Corporation, GGV Capital, and others. Topspin Media provides an online music marketing platform. According to Pandora's S-1, Gotcher owns roughly 1.05

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Southern California Media Venture Capital Los Angeles 157

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen of Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Silicon Valley Bank is big supporter and has been a sponsor of socaltech for many, many years.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation.

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Dollar Shave Club Userplane Tsavo Southern California 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. So, what is PeerStreet? Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Brad Brooks: The biggest news from TigerText this year is that we're evolving from what was a pure secure messaging product to a comprehensive clinical communications platform.

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Southern California Social Media News Entertainment 113

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2016

For our Insights and Opinions section today, Erik Caso, CEO and founder of San Diego-based Entangled Media--the maker of personal media streaming platform younity , tells us why your next startup doesn't need to be in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley, or rather the Bay Area, is the undisputed center of the tech universe.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Our platform helps health plans represent how they are performing in those two areas, which is a critical dimension of the value care movement. They want to demonstrate that they are providing good care, and demonstrating that they are caring for both well members and those that are not so well.

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Artificial Inteligence SoCal Southern California Software 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

It''s usually pretty slow from the news front around the holidays, so every year, we feature a few "end of the year" posts from movers and shakers here in Southern California''s tech industry. Not only did they have to work 24/7 to build their startup, but they also had to invest the same effort in raising capital.

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Activision Southern California Los Angeles Capital 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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JULY 29, 2009

No details on the firm have been disclosed, however, the firm describes itself as working on a "flexible drug delivery platform". Tags: replenish venture capital lifescience opthalmology drug biopharmaceutical delivery.

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